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Honestly, every time this happens I realize I 100% deserve it, because I'm the one that keeps these shitty pens lying around just so later on when I try 11 shitty pens in a row I say "what the fuck this is bullshit! I tried ALL these pens, the fuck is wrong with them"

I carry around both my fountain pen and ink bottle in my backpack. I've thrown my backpack around with the bottle in there as well, and it hasn't shattered yet. I probably should be more careful, but I forget.

And no, as long as you use it frequently, it shouldn't need cleaning every time you refill it.

I just might do that. I could need some help though, when searching around for dip pens, I see a lot of loose nibs. Does those break after a while? Are there different kinds that I need to be aware of (single/short use and more robust?)

I've never had an experience where my nib broke, and I've been using the same nib for about 2 years, with very frequent use at college. The reason there are so many online is that people may like the look of a certain pen, but said pen may not have the kind of nib they like to write with. Thin, medium, fat, etc.

Even a 15-20 dollar fountain pen's nib should last pretty much forever, though it may dull after a while and have a fatter point.

Ink regarded as a good beginner ink is Noodler's Bulletproof Ink. It doesn't feather at all, is a good shade of black, and 3oz will last you a longer amount of time than you think. I'm hardly 1/5 of the way through my bottle, and it's over 1.5 years old (and as said before, with a lot of use almost every day for the majority of the year).

12 dollars may seem like a lot, but the pre-filled ones are much more expensive per milliliter, are not as good quality, and are usually brand exclusive.

The Safari comes with a cartridge and bottled ink converter is about $5 extra. The cartridge effectively just a mini-bottle of ink that fits in the pen. Most ink is available both in a cartridge or bottle; ounce for ounce, a bottle is cheaper.

Mine usually last at least a week for each fill; no maintenance or anything special needed as long as the ink doesn't sit around unused for months on end and dry up. You can carry it about just like a ballpoint, no problem. And if you happen to run out of ink while you're out they can also take cartriges

I started writing with a fountain pen about a year ago and it has been the best (writing based) decision of my life. I also type on a Dvorak keyboard so I'm a technological hipster on two writing fronts.

If you're serious, it's like a normal sheet of lined paper. Notice that the blue is in the margins, while red is where you would write, implying it only works on the margins, where you scribble to make sure it works.

I only use those Bic pens with medium black ink and a clear plastic body and a black cap. They come in packs of 20 at my university stationery store for pretty cheap. They last a heck of a while, and write as smooth as a baby's

On the other hand, Bic blobs up and dries out and I'm left handed so i get inkhand. Plus, they're ballpoint, so they dry up on the ball making you scribble a bunch to get the thing working again, they're scratchy feeling, and you can't get really good precise letters with them either.

In additional to people suggesting you get yourself a better pen, you may also want to think about better paper as well. Try a heavier pound stock and/or something more absorbent. Just be aware that with more fluid inks this could lead to slight feathering.

My favorite pencil story involves the ginormous investment NASA squandered in coming up with a ball-point pen with a pressurized cartridge that could be used in zero gravity. The Russians? They issued their cosmonauts pencils.

One thing that always seems to happen to me is that I'll start writing something, and it'll stop mid word. Then when I get the ink flowing again and try to write over the indentations I made, it's completely impossible.

A lot of times what happens is that the ball sticks in the pen. You drag it around in the writing area with it stuck, and it flattens down the paper's microscopically frictional aspects. You try it on an un-touched area and it works fine! Then you try it again on the ultra-smoothed out area and the ball sticks with the lack of friction.

Correction: every single time I use a fucking ball point pen. Ball points require pressure and friction to rotate the ball, yet skin oil and the ink itself are lubricants that reduce friction between the ball and paper, stopping ink flow as the ball slides and skips instead of rotating.

Ceramic porous point pens don't do this. Like fountain pens, porous points flow ink with any contact with paper, but in a more controllable way than a fountain pen because they have many microscopic channels for the ink instead of just one large channel. Fountain pens tend to smudge and drip because they deliver much more ink than needed, which takes longer to be absorbed and dry on the paper. That's why people using fountain pens needed ink blotters to roll over the writing to absorb excess ink, so that they didn't have to wait for the ink to dry to keep it from smudging. Ceramic porous points work like fountain pens without the disadvantages of fountain pens or ball point pens.